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Welcome to Harmony Landing ...

Harmony Landing is located in Oldham County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Harmony Landing, you might consider that their post office opened in 1833.

A typical abbreviation for Harmony Landing: Harmony Lndg. (or less commonly used: Harmony Lndng.)

Harmony Landing is 420 feet [128 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Harmony Landing lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Harmony Landing and travel west, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Code for Harmony Landing: 502

Communities near Harmony Landing ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Harmony Landing.

  • Louisville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jeffersonville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • New Albany
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jeffersontown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Clarksville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Saint Matthews
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Shively
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Lyndon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Lyndon is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,445 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyndon <3>
  • La Grange
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Sellersburg
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Harmony Landing. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Harmony Landing.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Harmony Landing. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harmony Landing.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Harmony Landing. See our Newspapers Page for Harmony Landing.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Harmony Landing ...

Looking for more information about Harmony Landing? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Harmony Landing, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Harmony Landing.

Adding Harmony Landing to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Harmony Landing in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Harmony Landing was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Harmony Landing post office opened in 1833. The Harmony Landing post office closed in 1851.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Harmony Landing.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Oldham, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Harmony Landing - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/